Louis Porter Jr. Design is announcing it newest upcoming project, Roleplaying Cougars, for the Pathfinder Role Playing system. Here is information on Roleplaying Cougars: The Sourcebook
What do twenty something year old gamers like: gaming 
and cougars! What do thirty- and forty-something year old cougars like: twenty-something year old. It’s like peanut butter and jelly, strippers and dollar bills and Tricia Helfer
and Charisma Carpenter
sharing a booth at a con. Two great tastes that go so well together! These cougars are bored with their lives at home with their non-gamer husbands and friends, they need some good Pathfinder gaming action with the GMs and players who can handle all that crazy razor sharp gamer action and excitement. From coast to coast, this is the sourcebook that GMs and players have been asking for. Roleplaying Cougars: The Sourcebook gives you all information you need to add a thirty- and forty-something year old cougar to you gaming table. If you thought the Book of Erotic Fantasy was an exciting book, you have seen nothing until you’ve seen Roleplaying Cougars: The Sourcebook!!!!
and cougars! What do thirty- and forty-something year old cougars like: twenty-something year old. It’s like peanut butter and jelly, strippers and dollar bills and Tricia Helfer and Charisma Carpenter sharing a booth at a con. Two great tastes that go so well together! These cougars are bored with their lives at home with their non-gamer husbands and friends, they need some good Pathfinder gaming action with the GMs and players who can handle all that crazy razor sharp gamer action and excitement. From coast to coast, this is the sourcebook that GMs and players have been asking for. Roleplaying Cougars: The Sourcebook gives you all information you need to add a thirty- and forty-something year old cougar to you gaming table. If you thought the Book of Erotic Fantasy was an exciting book, you have seen nothing until you’ve seen Roleplaying Cougars: The Sourcebook!!!!
This sourcebook includes:
- History of the thirty- and forty-something year old cougar
- All the information to game with a thirty- and forty-something year old cougar including Personality and Relations.
- Locations to meet thirty- and forty-something year old cougars
- Getting a thirty- and forty-something year old cougar to you weekly Pathfinder game.
- Introducing a thirty- and forty-something year old cougar to the gaming party.
- Plus an all new thirty- and forty-something year old cougar Paragon Class
- Over 20 All New Cougar Feats to use in and out of game like including You Bring The Snacks, Your Cars Broken so I can Drive You, I’m Hot can I get a Reroll? and many more…
- Thirty- and Forty-something year old Cougar Arms and Armor
- Cougar Miniature Counters
- Cougar Initiative and Monster Cards
Written by Simon Rocquette and Louis Porter Jr. Coming soon to RPGnow, DriveThruRPG and Paizo! Click here to read more information on this product!
I think you have rubbed many people the wrong way with this one. While I get that one should take the like with humor, getting people's hopes up PRIOR to April 1st and THEN squashing these hopes via an April's Fool joke seems like both cruel and a potentially bad business decision to me. While I calmed down, I was seriously pissed after reading the post.
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I laughed my ass off. Really, I AM pissed off because this is not you-know-what, but ... I'm still laughing... :)
ReplyDelete@End: Jonathan McAnulty at Paizo said it the best:
ReplyDeleteWhat does he need to apologize for? Letting people jump to obviously incorrect conclusions based on nothing more than wishful thinking? He made no false claims, made no derogatory comments, and forced no one to part with any money.
As I said elsewehere, Razor Coast, at this point, is a joke and deserves to be treated as such. That's not a knock on those that have invested in it, because its not their fault. But when things like Razor Coast happen you can either moan about it or laugh about it. Either way, the Razor Coast situation is not Louis' fault and this little joke is nothing to get feathers ruffled over.
Razor Coast itself being a joke or not, it's not all that professional to make such jokes about fellow industry folks (regardless of their current status in said industry).
ReplyDeleteBut, hey, whatever. Stay as classy as you normally are, LPJ!
I'm not invested in the Razor Coast in any way. Personally, I really thought this was an example of 'Going too far' on April Fool's day. I was sure it was a joke before this post, but I still think this was in extremely poor taste. There are to many people that have serious emotions about this product to be this asinine with their feelings. This joke is NOT aimed at the product. It is aimed at those individuals who gave money up front in good faith. The product was not getting their hopes up. The customers that were hoping to finally see something for their trust are the ones that were targeted. Really LPJ, I can not see how you see it otherwise.
ReplyDeleteShort answer: Mr. Porter, I think you underestimate the number of fans who are perceiving this as unprofessional and cruel. But it remains your company to run how you see fit.
ReplyDeleteLong answer: here
Louis, since you're big on posting what people say at Paizo, how about posting this:
ReplyDelete"I'm not invested in the Razor Coast in any way. Personally, I really thought this was an example of 'Going too far' on April Fool's day. I was sure it was a joke before this post, but I still think this was in extremely poor taste. There are too many people that have serious emotions about this product to be this asinine with their feelings. This joke is NOT aimed at the product. It is aimed at those individuals who gave money up front in good faith. The product was not getting their hopes up. The customers that were hoping to finally see something for their trust are the ones that were targeted. Really LPJ, I can not see how you see it otherwise. -- Posted by xorial"
Again, said better than I could say it, "I will say again. Whether by intent, or lack of thinking, this joke did NOT target the Razor Coast product. What it did do was target individuals who have been hoping to finally see somebody, who is one of the guys that offered to buy it, get the chance to publish it. That is not a joke that everybody can share in. It is the same as calling somebody a doofus in school just to get everybody else to laugh at them. It is hurtful and misguided. If LPJ cannot see that, then I will NEVER support his company ever again. The conceit that he can't possibly be in the wrong is not one that I will support."
ReplyDeleteLPJ FTW!
ReplyDeleteThe Rickrolling was a "KLASSIC" I say it with a "K" just like Krusty the clown! AWESOME... I really wanted to play a Cougar...
ReplyDeleteFor those who are pissed... IT WAS AN AWESOME JOKE!